Australian study uses new technique to challenge brain development hypothesis
Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - 10:32
in Biology & Nature
A new study, which might be useful for biomedical research, rewrites parts of the rulebook on how mammalian brains -- including our own -- could have evolved. It includes the possibility that distinctive dominance of our own cerebral hemispheres is not, as previously suggested, just a side-effect that forces brains of a particular size to have particular proportions.